Have you even had the no calorie one? They gave me it as I left. Probably to make sure I never came back - horrid.

by Nate Saunders2/21/2015 3:14:50 PM

For those of you wondering how Bottas can do 22 laps without setting a time, these will all have bee followed by trips to the pit lane, meaning Williams has used the afternoon to do a spot of pit stop practice.

Can you compare the Medium tyre running timing between Vettel and Hamilton? I think Ferrari also doing a race simulation and Seb did a better timing then Kvyat with Medium

by Senthil2/21/2015 3:20:03 PM

As you can see, the order hasn't changed for a while. Only the lap counter changing at the time being. Buton has just trundled back into the pit lane.

by Nate Saunders2/21/2015 3:48:51 PM

@GustavoEchenagucia: Mercedes has still accumulated more laps. From what I've heard in the paddock, the engine Renault is running now is basically the one it plans to homologate next week - therefore its effectively its race engine for Australia. So anything extra Mercedes shows next week would be very telling.

Ericsson moves up to fourth on the soft tyre, slotting in behind Hamilton. Verstappen has just clocked lap number 120.

by Nate Saunders2/21/2015 3:55:09 PM

Out again later? Isn't it already close to end of day?

by sat edited by Nate Saunders2/21/2015 3:55:17 PM

@sat: Just over an hour left, yes. But every lap is crucial at this stage so McLaren will go out when it can - even if just for a lap.

by Nate Saunders2/21/2015 3:55:49 PM

Honda tends to build performance first then add reliability. Problem is there is not a lot of testing time available.

by Michael2/21/2015 3:55:53 PM

I think Max Verstappen is awesome considering the age he is

by Max edited by Nate Saunders2/21/2015 3:55:58 PM

As its tough to infer much about the race pace as of now and with limited number of laps the McLaren has put in, I would really like to know the positives that McLaren has in your purview, except of the fact of a strong driver line-up.

by Sitank2/21/2015 3:57:07 PM

@Sitank: McLaren is demonstrating exactly what testing is for. It knows it's not going to be in an ideal position in Melbourne - it's known that from the moment it signed with Honda for this year. The biggest benefit of Honda, and the main motivator for the switch, is that McLaren is no longer a customer outfit to another team on the grid. Ron Dennis said in the modern world of F1 a customer team could never win a championship and he's right.

by Nate Saunders2/21/2015 3:58:33 PM

With the personnel at the disposal of both teams, too, it won't be long until things get back on track.

by Nate Saunders2/21/2015 3:58:56 PM

As a Ferrari fan Its sad to see a McLaren one of the most successful team in history of F1 to start at this low reliability. They should have continued with Mercedes until Honda perfected their power unit. Hope for some kind of miracle from now till Australia.

by Bart2/21/2015 3:59:59 PM

@Bart: Honda cannot perfect its power unit if it does not have a car to put it in.

by Nate Saunders2/21/2015 4:00:11 PM

We have another stoppage at the end of the pit lane.

by Nate Saunders2/21/2015 4:38:40 PM

It's Verstappen's Toro Rosso.

by Nate Saunders2/21/2015 4:39:17 PM

This red flag could is likely to take us to the final ten minutes. Fifteen minutes remain and everyone waits patiently to see if they can complete any final laps.

by Nate Saunders2/21/2015 4:45:57 PM

@Turboy: Usually a pit wall is fully functional, with every team member there, and a team will complete stints you would expect to see in a race, at consistent pace. You can tell when you're here which teams are doing a race sim from what's happening out there.

by Nate Saunders2/21/2015 4:46:49 PM

Red flag halts proceedings. It may be a bit of a scramble for the pit lane once the session goes green again! Every lap counts #FeelTheForce